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Oates Associates is a consulting firm with experienced staffers who help companies connect with educators to procure and use their products.

Staffers can create marketing and communications plans, write, give webinars and workshops, keynote conferences, and provide staff development in the intersection of technology, education, and school reform.

With special expertise in communications, we research and write articles, books, white papers, instructional manuals, content for websites and social media. We have become adept with social media, including Twitter and online communities of practice, to increase awareness and branding of products for clients and communication with their users and potential purchasers. We especially encourage listening to potential clients and current users to get ideas for improving and developing better educational products.

Let us help your company make the most of conference experiences with our powerful engagement strategies for before and after the conference and our help with speaker placement. We can coach your power users into becoming power presenters at conferences and leverage that for wider visibility for your ed tech products and services.

Successful projects have been conducted for the U.S. Postal Service (touched 2 million students), BBN, Scholastic, Microsoft, MDR, NEA, Agency for Instructional Technology, AOL, multiple textbook publishers and others. Technology policy and implementation issues are specialities, including development of school district ed tech plans and policies. Staff can create in-depth reports or books and design or conduct evaluation studies.

Companies who need a minority consultant or someone with bilingual expertise can tap one of our associates for a single day of feedback, for a conference gig in a booth, or for ongoing, part-time assistance. Our associates have experience in teaching all grades, special education, gifted, English language learners, and include large district and state department of education work. Several have also been university professors teaching both undergrads and graduate students.